Archana Yadav

• Assisted businesses with statutory compliance and risk management related matters and where necessary, coordinating with various departments and ensuring adherence to compliance, conducting audit and due diligence.
• Co ordination with Big4 for implementation of compliance tool, contract audit etc.
• Litigation administration and insurance management. Co ordination with Law firm for advice and IPR related matter
• Contract drafting and management and evaluation of vendor due diligence. drafting of agreements like MSA, Transition agreement, NDA etc.
• Review various compliance register related to internal risk and publish report thereof.
• Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures like POSH, ABC, Compliance framework contract management polices and developed proposals and presentations for Brookfield, Summit etc.

• Contract management:

· Drafting solidifying and preparing contracts and Legal documentation involving drafting, vetting and negotiating the

contracts / agreements, standardizing the contract forms, revisiting the contract forms for purpose of improvisation.

· Preparing MOU/ LOI for the purpose of the acquisition of property title and transaction risk identification along with ability to provide suitable mitigations.

Negotiating, reviewing and finalizing various customer/vendor agreements, technology agreements involving but not limited to NDA's, master service agreements, infrastructure agreement statements of work, proposals, property agreements (Leave & License or Lease Agreements), annual maintenance contracts facility agreements, agreements for consultancy services, sub-contracts, NDA's, licensing agreements, etc.

Litigation Management:

· Drafting and revising company policies like POSH, Antislavery, compliance framework, legal notices, representations and replies against notice issued by statutory authorities, issuing legal advice and assistance in connection thereto.

· Interfacing with Advocates and Counsels in connection with company litigation including but not limited to consumer

Litigation, civil , criminal litigations.

· Representing all legal matters with respect to patents, IP, trademark infringements, and other ongoing matters as they arose.

Handling litigation management i.e. engaging, coordinating, briefing and follow-ups with the Advocates for purpose of Consumer (District Forums, State Commission, National Commission), civil cases ( high court of Bombay) arbitration cases, criminal complaints and help in reducing legal risk to the company

· Briefing external counsels, coordinating with them for effective handling of litigation including travelling at the place of hearing across Maharashtra & Goa and Delhi.

Statutory & Regulatory Compliances:

• Responsible for routine activities to ensure compliance with policies, internal control, procedure and applicable laws and regulations, various TRAI Regulations -submission of various reports and compliances
• Engaging with regulatory authorities to facilitate discussions and/or seek specific guidance on critical matters e.g Regulatory observations and non-conformances noted representations on challenges faced by business during implementation of regulatory guidelines etc
• Business Advisory:
• Providing general legal advice support and assistance (including legal opinions and legal research) to the management/department on various legal issues ( disciplinary actions, association, governance, risk management and contentious matters) related to the day‐to‐day business of the company on various matters having legal implications
• Interacting/coordinating with external consultants for specialized legal documentation pertaining to the Company's strategic projects and new business initiatives
• Advising the internal department/ management in various legal queries arising out of their work
• Providing prompt and concise legal advice and specific solutions‐driven support to all departments as required
• Drafting and releasing of notice/legal letters
• Maintained frequent interaction with senior management to measure goal achievement and determine areas of improvement.
• Compliance Management:
• Managing and reporting compliance under applicable laws
• Assess whether Compliance policies and procedures are embedded and operating effectively.
• Review and approve Advertisement/Sales related Material(s).
• Kept up with and reviewed changes in laws, informed orgnaisationof changes and advised appropriate departments on actions to prevent legal issues.
• Represented Company in DoT, COAI and industry meetings, submitted reprenatations to government for formation of effective polcies and challenges faced by the company due to existng policy or issues faced.
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Work profile as above.

Non Litigation Management, Business Advisory,Litigations

• Closely monitored and evaluated contract performance to determine regulatory compliance and necessary amendments.
• Reviewed current contracts to identify upcoming contract expirations and coordinated with stakeholders to analyze contract renewals and re-negotiation.
• Drafting and vetting of various agreements like Lease deed, Indemnity bond, Leave and license agreement,franchise agreements, Fit Out Contracts, Memorandum of understanding, department statutory agreements, coordinating for the legal matters with advocates, drafting legal notices and responses.
• Handling all litigations filed by/against the company
• Researching on case laws for developing defenses.
• Drafting Plaints, Written Statements, Applications, Revision Petitions, Affidavits related to litigations
• Briefing external counsels, coordinating with them for effective handling of litigation which includes travelling at the place of hearing across Maharashtra & Goa
• Conducting legal research on various aspects related to business & providing legal advice for the same
• Updating circulars, regulations, notifications, amendment applicable to business to various departments
• Providing advice to an organization by analyzing the legal issues.

• Reviewing , drafting and negotiating agreements, consulting agreements, , non-disclosure agreements, terms and amendments, lease deed, indemnity bond, cross promotion agreement, franchise agreements, fit out contracts memorandum of understanding, department statutory agreements, etc
• Driving contract lifecycle from drafting through completion of the negotiation process.
• Preparing & Interpreting contracts and ensuring compliance with company policies

• Generating summons and complaints, bills of particular, combine responses, combine demands, etc, in line with that of the defendant attorney with cross claims
• Drafting letters to defendant attorney, insurance carrier, judges and generating motion, stipulation and memorandum of law, attorney’s affirmation, clients affidavit in support etc, to be produced before the court as per the court requirements
• Conducting research on relevant laws and matters.

• Handling court matters (High court, small causes court, city civil court as well as family court) like preparing court documents, memo of appeal, summarization of cases etc
• Assisted counsels with materials preparation for internal and external training events.
• Identified appropriate judicial decisions relevant to cases.